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            <h1>Quality Humor Manifesto</h1>
            
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato">Plato</a> once said "The essence of the ridiculous is an ignorance in the weak, who are thus 
unable to retaliate when ridiculed". This is too bleak. Humor might certainly be a weapon but assuming its only function is to help the fittest 
survive the tyranny of the divine is an understatement. Humor is more likely a simple cerebral response produced when discovering a new connection 
between the two unrelated reference points. In this respect it differs not from poetry - it also aims to discover the new relationships 
between the concepts. It amuses us to find these new connection points because the process of discovering them is how our brains keep expending. 
Hearing a good joke is a mental equivalent of being rewarded with a sense of refreshment and optimism after a deep, long sleep. And just like 
poetry humor can be explored indefinitely. It has enumerable twists and turns. It also ages quickly. New jokes grow old fast but as they age 
they offer more opportunities of building yet more new jokes built on top of them.
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While it is probably impossible to produce a quantifiable definition of good humor, there is one general principle of subjective nature - 
good humor should not be disgusting but should still manage to rattle the innermost suppositions of our sense of appropriateness. It should 
walk a thin, red line between satisfyingly novel and criminally repulsive. Similar to the development of civilizations on this planet the sense 
of humor has three main stages of development: what? why? who? First one asks "What is so funny?", then one asks "Why is it so funny?" 
and finally - "Who cares why it is so funny?" For example, surfing the Internet in order to read a web page titled 
<a href="quality_humor_manifesto.php">Quality Humor Manifesto</a> might seem pointless to some people, distasteful to others and mildly amusing 
to a handful.
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